Fiberglass Ladders

[Dad]

Since I am too vain to read a ladder website...

Anyone know how to keep an old yellow fiberglass ladder from sheading fiberglass into your body?

Any special treatments?

I have one that is around 13 years old... great ladder, but everytime your arm or leg bumps it you get fiberglass in you.

thanks

[bb]

I wonder if Varathane would work? Might lose it's non-conductive principles though.

[Dad]

One of the guys told me car paste wax ?

[NedFlanders]

wrap it in duct tape

[troyorr]

Throw it away and buy a new one. Read OSHA's requirements on what constitutes the need to repair or replace. Your ladder should have a label on it that tells you what to do with it. Good luck.

[Dad]

Originally posted by troyorr
Throw it away and buy a new one. Read OSHA's requirements on what constitutes the need to repair or replace. Your ladder should have a label on it that tells you what to do with it. Good luck.

thanks troy... the ladder labels are long gone.. good steady ladder though.

Like I said in the first post... too vain to do a search, besides I am still working and ain't got time..

just thought I would ask.

thanks

[Dad]

Originally posted by NedFlanders
wrap it in duct tape

thanks Ned... I can always count on you.

[dec]

Better send it to me and go out and buy yourself a new one. You dont want to risk using it and by giving it to me you can be assured that you will no longer have fiberglass problems. You might want to try some of the other guys fixes before you send it to me.....you sure wouldnt want me sueing you, would you.

[Dad]

Originally posted by dec
Better send it to me and go out and buy yourself a new one. You dont want to risk using it and by giving it to me you can be assured that you will no longer have fiberglass problems. You might want to try some of the other guys fixes before you send it to me.....you sure wouldnt want me sueing you, would you.

It would be worth it if you accidently sat on it.

[cracker]

Mr Rep....How Is It Going...Did You Get The Info I Sent....E Mail Me And let Me Know.

[ct2]

walk away from it for 5 minutes on a job site....someone will come by and fix it for you

[condenseddave]

Originally posted by lusker
One of the guys told me car paste wax ?

Oh, that'll make it safe. What did you do to piss him off?????

I have a 15 y/o 28' that is doing the same thing. I'm thinking Sawzall, dumpster, Grainger....

[condenseddave]

Originally posted by NedFlanders
wrap it in duct tape

LMFAO. And set it in the sun....

[James 3528]

Originally posted by lusker
Since I am too vain to read a ladder website...

Anyone know how to keep an old yellow fiberglass ladder from sheading fiberglass into your body?

Any special treatments?

I have one that is around 13 years old... great ladder, but everytime your arm or leg bumps it you get fiberglass in you.

thanks

I know you hate to get rid of it. But do what I did, run over it with the van. When I bought a new one I also bout a aluminum one that went up 16 feet and I use that one more than the fiberglass one and it is a lot less weight .

[NedFlanders]

Originally posted by condenseddave

Originally posted by NedFlanders
wrap it in duct tape

LMFAO. And set it in the sun....

Yea , the sun will make it flow.
The you can peel the tape off and there will me a nice new "safety" coating on it.

I bet your tools will even stick to the sides then.

If we all put our heads together , we are a very powerful bunch.

[R12rules]

almost anything you coated it with would be non conductive. What constitutes conductivity is something which provides a path to ground, electrically.

anything applied with a paint brush or sprayed on would probably NOT conduct electricity.

Originally, the outer coating was fiberglass resin. Why not just buy some resin and re-apply it over the channels of your ladder?

[James 3528]

In use to worry about conductivity with ladders until I realized the several times a year I got hooked up and shocked good, I was not on a ladder. Then I thought about how many times I had done electrical work right off of a extension ladder an that came out to be a whopping zero times. That was when I bought a medium height lite weight aluminum extension ladder and I love it.

[Dad]

James... our average guy, including me, is 210# + without tools. We have all red fiberglass now... it is just the yellow one that has been around so long. Darn good ladder still.

Maybe I can coat it again, but I really like the car wax idea.

[James 3528]

Originally posted by lusker
James... our average guy, including me, is 210# + without tools. We have all red fiberglass now... it is just the yellow one that has been around so long. Darn good ladder still.

Maybe I can coat it again, but I really like the car wax idea.

Get a 55 gallon drum of this and dip the ladder

[Senior Tech]

http://www.tapplastics.com/shop/product.php?pid=30 - 39k

Try this link.